Showing posts with label saké. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saké. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

gee... saké?

g saké - joy (NV)
SakéOne
Milled rice
American
Taking part in my very first Wine Blogging Wednesday, our theme this week is saké! (Original announcement) While I've had a couple different sakés here and there, and been told a multitude of different things regarding their serving temperatures, I'm by no means at all knowledgeable. So if you're a saké virgin, then this will hopefully be somewhat enlightening ... if you're a saké master, then you'll be sure to let me know if I've spoken incorrectly.

My choice for the evening was a bottle of American saké, made by SakéOne in Oregon which claims to be the only "American-owned" saké brewery. A brewery might make you think, "Wait ... that's not the place you make wine!" and you'd be right - saké is not technically wine. It is a Japanese alcoholic beverage made via the fermentation of rice. It is however commonly referred to as "rice wine" here in the States.